Peripheral Visions Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen

Name: Peripheral Visions Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen
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ISBN: 9780226877914

ISBN-10: 0226877914

ISBN-13: 9780226877914

Edition: 2008

Authors: Lisa Wedeen

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The government of Yemen, unified since 1990, remains largely incapable of controlling violence or providing goods and services to its population, but the regime continues to endure despite its fragility and peripheral location in the global political and economic order. Revealing what holds Yemen together in such tenuous circumstances,Peripheral Visionsshows how citizens form national attachments even in the absence of strong state institutions. Lisa Wedeen, who spent a year and a half in Yemen observing and interviewing its residents, argues that national solidarity in such weak states tends to arise not from attachments to institutions but through both extraordinary events and the…

Book details

Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 0.91" wide x 0.89" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



List of Maps


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Imagining Unity



Seeing Like a Citizen, Acting Like a State



The Politics of Deliberation: Qat Chews as Public Spheres



Practicing Piety, Summoning Groups: Disorder as Control



Piety in Time: Contemporary Islamic Movements in National and Transnational Contexts


Conclusion Politics as Performative


Notes


Bibliography


Index